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Martí congratulates the Taula del Sénia for its defense of the millenary olive trees.

Sunday, 22 September 2019 - Castelló Ruta de Sabor

The leaders of the association are considering the possibility of integrating the oil produced by these trees into Castelló Ruta de Sabor.

The President of the Provincial Council, José Martí, has congratulated the leaders of the Taula del Sénia for the official recognition by the FAO of the Millenary Olive Agricultural System of the Territory of Sénia as an Important System of World Agricultural Heritage (SIPAM), a distinction that will be delivered next December in Rome. FAO is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Martí has also wanted to thank the work that is developing this commonwealth “to defend our millenary olive trees, a unique treasure in the world that we have the obligation to take care of and to put in value”. In this sense, the leaders of the Taula del Sénia have explained that they are working to ensure that the price paid for the oil, whose harvest this year is expected to be very fruitful, is increasingly higher. The interlocutors have reflected on the possibility of integrating into Castelló Ruta de Sabor the brands of the province of Castellón that market this product. The congratulations of the president of the Provincial Council has occurred in the course of a reception in which he met with the president of the association, Ivan Sanchez, the manager, Teresa Adell, and the adviser, Jaume Antich. The commonwealth of the Taula del Sénia, to which belong 27 municipalities in the Valencian Community, Aragon and Catalonia, of which 15 are from Castellón, works in a geographical area of 2,070 square kilometers in which 111,000 inhabitants live and share territory, history, language and culture. Thanks to the work carried out by this entity, it has been possible to inventory a total of 4,580 thousand-year-old olive trees. A collaboration agreement is currently in force between the Diputación de Castellón and the Mancomunidad de la Taula del Sénia, amounting to 22,500 euros, with which a traveling exhibition on millenary olive trees has been carried out. Both José Martí and those responsible for the Taula have expressed their intention to continue this relationship in the future, which, according to the manager of the association, Teresa Adell, would make possible a new exhibition on dry stone works.

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